Neptunian

English 2019 September 29 Pronunciation en /nɛpˈtjuː.nɪ.ən/ RP en En-uk-Neptunian.oga RP en /nɛpˈt(j)u.ni.ən/ /-ˈtʃuː-/ GA en Nep tun i an Etymology 1 en ine-pro *nebʰ- From en la Neptūnius of or pertaining to the Roman god Neptune, from la Neptūnus the Roman god Neptune (possibly ultimately from en ine-pro *nebʰ- to become damp, cloudy) + la -ius suffix forming adjectives from nouns; analysable as en Neptune ian. The English word is cognate with fr neptunien pertaining to the Roman god Neptune, pertaining to the sea, pertaining to Neptunism, Neptunian; proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist, de Neptunier proponent of Neptunism, Neptunist.n. and adj 126156 September 2003 yes; adj Adjective - thumb|A statue of Neptune and Triton (1622–1623 yes) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.n n1 From the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England, UK. One of the senses of the word Neptunian is “of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea” (etymology 1, adjective sense 1). en pertaining to the Roman god Neptune en Roman mythology Of or pertaining to Neptune, the Roman god of fresh water and the sea, the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. en Poseidonian<id:pertaining to the Greek god Poseidon> en Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e., Seneca the Younger] w:Edward Sherburne Troades: Or The Royal Captives. A Tragedy, Written Originally in Latin,by Lucius Annæus Seneca, the Philosopher. English’d by Edward Sherburne, Esq; with Annotations. London Printed by Anne Godbid, and John Playford, for Samuel Carr,at the Kings-Head in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. 1679 act II, scene i 21 https://books.google.com/books?id=u0RoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA21 228722854 The Tomb disburd'ning, whence the Ghoſt aroſe / Of great Achilles; Such when Thracian Foes / (The Prelude of thy Fates, Troy!) he o'rethrew, / And the white hair'd Neptunian Cycnus [i.e., Neptune's son] ſlew. en by extension rare Of or pertaining to water or the sea. en w:John Dyer The Ruins of Rome. A Poem. Poems. [...] Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books London Printed by John Hughs, for Messrs. R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley,in Pallmall. 1740 1759 42–43 https://books.google.com/books?id=A0gVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA42 991281870 Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom. en G. D. The Tar’s Engagement Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym; Edward Cave] The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle London Printedat St John’s Gate, for D[avid] Henry, and sold by F[rancis] Newbery,the corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard, Ludgate-Street. November 1774 XLIV 534 https://books.google.com/books?id=mHpIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA534 1 192374019 Where the inſulting ſtreams of Chaos roar, / Where boiſt'rous waves the rugged ſhores ſurround, / And ſtorms and whirlwinds in the air abound, / There meet two rivals of Neptunian race, / Hoſtilities begin with fierce grimace: [...] en w:Horace Ode IX. To Mæcenas. William Smart Horace Literally Translated for the Use of Students London Printed for Whittaker, Treacher & Co.,Ave-Maria Lane. 1830 105 https://books.google.com/books?id=nucIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA105 1003871256 Since lately the Neptunian admiral (Sextus Pompeius) when driven from the sea, fled with his burnt ships, having menaced those chains to Rome, which as a friend he had taken off from perfidious slaves. en by extension geology Formed by the action of water. en neptunian dyke en Martin Hovland Ancient and Modern Analogues Deep-water Coral Reefs: Unique Biodiversity Hot-spots Springer–Praxis Books in Life Sciences Incorporating Aquatic and Marine Sciences Dordrecht; Berlin Springer; Chichester, West Sussex: Praxis Publishing 2008 section 7.3.2 (Kess-Kess Formations, Morocco) 170 https://books.google.com/books?id=CIc7w6SuhY8C&pg=PA170 978-1-4020-8461-4 A special character of these mounds [the Kess-Kess carbonate mud mounds] is the numerous Neptunian dikes. These are fracture systems, which have been filled with other sediments and minerals. It is suspected that these dikes represent spring conduits (seeps) during the formation of the mounds, and that the seeping fluids were of a hydrothermal nature [...]. en by extension geology historical Of, pertaining to, or supporting en Neptunism a discredited theory that rocks were formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans. en [John Murray] Part III. Of the Arguments in Support of the Huttonian and Neptunian Theories, from the Positions of the Strata of the Globe. A Comparative View of the Huttonian and Neptunian Systems of Geology: In Answer to the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth, by Professor [John] Playfair Edinburgh Printed for Ross and Blackwood,South Bridge Street; London: T. N. Longman, and G. Rees 1802 106 https://archive.org/details/acomparativevie01murrgoog/page/n120/mode/1up 5894371461 In the Neptunian ſyſtem it is ſuppoſed that the poſitions of the ſtrata have been determined, partly by the figure of the baſe or ground on which they have been depoſited, and partly by their depoſition having been a ſpecies of cryſtallization. en B[ernhard] Studer On Mineral Metamorphism w:Robert Jameson The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts Edinburgh Adam & Charles Black; London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans April 1848 XLIV LXXXVIII 372 https://books.google.com/books?id=6x0AAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA372 926996861 In several important cases, it is difficult to determine to what degree the metamorphosis has extended, since it remains uncertain whether the form and structural relations of the mountain-mass are to be considered as remains of the neptunian sedimentary formation, or as a product of the metamorphosis itself; for the original form of the neptunian, as well as of the volcanic sedimentary rocks have often become so changed by erosion, and so much alike in both classes of rocks, that this distinctive character is wholly lost; [...] Alternative forms en neptunian Derived terms geology en neptunian dike, en neptunian dyke Related terms en Neptune Neptune grass Neptunism Neptunist Translations of or pertaining to the Roman god Neptune Catalan: ca neptunià, ca neptúnic French: fr neptunien Italian: it nettunio literary, poetic of or pertaining to water or the sea Bulgarian: bg океански, bg морски French: fr neptunien Italian: it nettunio literary, poetic formed by the action of water Catalan: ca neptúnic Italian: it nettunico of, pertaining to, or supporting Neptunism French: fr neptunien German: de Neptunisch Italian: it nettuniano Noun en obsolete A sailor. en Neptunist Thesaurus:sailor en John Taylor The Praise of Hemp-seed: With the Voyage of Mr. Roger Bird and the Writer hereof, in a Boat of Brown-paper, from London to Quinborough in Kent.As also, a Farewell to the Matchlesse Deceased Mr. Thomas Coriat. Concluding with the Commendations of the Famous Riuer of Thames. By Iohn Taylor. The Contents of the Booke are in the Next Leafe before the Preamble. The Profits Arising by Hemp-seed are Cloathing, Food, Fishing, Shipping, Pleasure, Profit, Iustice, Whipping printed at London For H. Gosson,and are to be sold at Christ-Church gate 1620 837721081 republished in All the Workes of Iohn Taylor the Water Poet:Being 63 in Number Collected into One Volum by the Author with Sundry New Additions, Corrected, Revised, and Newly Imprinted. London Printed by I[ohn] B[eale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for Iames Boler;at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard 1630 66 https://books.google.com/books?id=_RRfAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA3-PA66 2 1049101215 You braue Neptunians, you ſalt water crew, / Sea-plowing Marriners; I ſpeake to you: [...] en geology historical A proponent of Neptunism. en Neptunist en Plutonian Plutonist plutonist volcanist Vulcanist en View of the Mineralogy, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of the Island of Arran, with Notices of Antiquities, and Suggestions for Improving the Agriculture and Fisheries of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, by the Rev. James Headrick. pp. 395. Price 10s. 6d. Constable and Co. Edinburgh: Murray, London, 1807. [book review] The Literary Panorama. Being a Review of Books, Magazine of Varieties, and Annual Register London Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis,Great Queen-Street, [f]or C[harles] Taylor,No. 108, Hatton Garden, Holborn. October 1807 March 1808 III 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=h2Q3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57 176276973 We are not ourselves, bigotted Neptunians or Vulcanians: we perceive difficulties whichever theory be adopted: and provided the earth be but stable under us, we are not anxiously jealous for the dignity of the trident-wielding power, or for the honour of the hammer-working deity. en w:John Mason Good; w:Olinthus Gregory; Newton Bosworth OBSIDIAN https://books.google.com/books?id=OMo6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP566 Pantologia. A New Cyclopædia, Comprehending a Complete Series of Essays, Treatises, and Systems, Alphabetically Arranged;with a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Words: The Whole Presenting a Distinct Survey of Human Genius, Learning, and Industry. Illustrated with Elegant Engravings; those on Natural History being from Original Drawings by Edwards and Others, and Beautifully Coloured after Nature. London Printed for G. Kearsley; [et al.] 1813 VIII (MID–OZO) 1 733059775 Its [obsidian's] origin is warmly contested between the Neptunians and Plutonians, many of the latter denominating it a vitreous lava. en Art. IV.—An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, being an Introduction to the Study of Those Sciences, and Designed for the Use of Pupils, for Persons Attending Lectures on These Subjects, and as a Companion for Travellers in the United States of America. Illustrated by Six Plates. By Parker Cleaveland, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Lecturer in Chymistry and Mineralogy in Bowdoin College, &c. &c. Boston, 1816. Large 8vo. pp. 668. The Analectic Magazine Philadelphia, Pa. Published by Moses Thomas April 1817 IX 312–313 https://books.google.com/books?id=3KA6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA313 780179261 As to the two theories, neither will suffice alone. The neptunian is utterly inadequate to explain the phenomena of basalt; nor can a vulcanist account for the appearance of an hydrophane.—We need both explanations. Those geologists who have travelled in the north of Europe, are generally neptunians; those who have made their observations in the south of the same regions, are generally vulcanists. Alternative forms en neptunian Translations proponent of Neptunism French: fr neptunien m, fr neptunienne f German: de Neptunier m, de Neptunist m Italian: it nettunista m f Etymology 2 thumb|The planet Neptune photographed in 1989 by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s space probe Voyager 2. The word Neptunian also means “of or pertaining to the planet” (etymology 2, adjective sense 2) as well as “an (imaginary) inhabitant of the planet” (noun sense 2). From en Neptune eighth planet in the solar system ian. Adjective - en astrology Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Neptune. en w:Liz Greene; Howard Sasportas Your Inborn Images The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology Boston, Mass. Red Wheel/Weiser 1987 1 part 1 (The Stages of Childhood) 11–12 https://books.google.com/books?id=d3HQRMjUy1wC&pg=PA11 978-0-87728-673-8 The Sun represents a masculine principle—assertion, expression and spirit. Neptune touching it brings in the qualities of sensitivity and creativity as well as weakness, dissolution, dissipation and elusiveness. If we take the Sun to represent the image of father, the person's experience of father (the Sun) will be coloured by Neptune. The father will receive the Neptunian projection and the child with this aspect will be sensitive to the father's Neptunian side. en astronomy Of or pertaining to the planet Neptune. en Sears C[ook] Walker Researches Relative to the Planet Neptune Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Washington, D.C. Published by the Smithsonian Institution 1851 II 2 17 https://books.google.com/books?id=AY05AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA17 608756746 After making a sketch of the Neptunian regions for the dates from 1790 to 1800, I soon came to the conclusion that the nights of the 8th and 10th of May, 1795, were the only ones that afforded a reasonable prospect of furnishing an observation of Neptune, and accordingly computed for the evening of the 10th of May, the limits of the Neptunian region, or in other words the locus of Neptune as a fixed star, [...] en [Alexander Winchell] Art. V.—The Unity of the Physical World. D. D. Whedon Methodist Quarterly Review New York, N.Y. Nelson & Phillips; Cincinnati, Oh.: Hitchcock & Walden January 1874 XXVI (4th Series; volume LVI overall) section II (Facts of Succession), subsection I (Primordial History of the Solar System) 83 https://books.google.com/books?id=ISdGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA83 The planet Uranus, in like manner, detached, in process of time, a satellite, followed, in the progress of the cosmic ages, by seven others. A slow disturbing influence, supposed also to be recognized in the Neptunian system, has manifested itself in the Uranian, in an excessive obliquity of the plane of the Uranian satellites—an obliquity which considerably exceeds a right angle, [...] en Carolyn C. Porco; Philip D. Nicholson; Jeffrey N. Cuzzi; Jack J[onathan] Lissauer; w:Larry W. Esposito Neptune’s Ring System Dale P. Cruikshank, with M. S. Matthews and A. M. Schumann Neptune and Triton Space Science Series Tucson, Ariz. w:University of Arizona Press 1995 733 https://books.google.com/books?id=My8J0G3R1-4C&pg=PA733 978-0-8165-1525-7 For the Neptunian rings, we again expect that for Earth-based occultation data, so long as the mean particle size is substantially larger than the wavelength of observation (2.2μm). [...] In fact, photometric observations suggest that most Neptunian ring particles are sub-centimeter in size [...], so that we have . en Helen Klus The Planet Neptune How We Came to Know the Cosmos: Space & Time [United Kingdom] The Star Garden 2017 part III (Missions to Planets), paragraph 24.2 220 https://books.google.com/books?id=4wRMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA220 978-1-9998778-0-4 Neptune has a faint ring system and 14 known moons. The largest of these is Triton, which contains over 90% of the mass of all the Neptunian moons, and is the only Neptunian moon that's spherical. Derived terms en Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy) cis-Neptunian neptunate neptunic Neptunicentric neptunite neptunium trans-Neptunian transneptunian Neptunian planet Translations of or pertaining to the planet Neptune Arabic: ar نِبْتُونِيّ Basque: eu neptunoar Catalan: ca neptúnic Finnish: fi Neptunukseen liittyvä, fi neptunuslainen German: de neptunisch Italian: it nettunense, it nettuniano Portuguese: pt netuniano Spanish: es neptuniano Welsh: cy Neifionaidd Coordinate terms en Jovian Lunar Martian Mercurian Plutonian Saturnian Solar Terran Uranian Venusian Noun en astrology A person under the astrological influence of the planet Neptune. en w:Shakuntala Devi Characteristics of the Planets Astrology for You New Delhi Orient Paperbacks 1983 2007 54 https://books.google.com/books?id=acUbv_gjVcEC&pg=PA54 978-81-222-0067-6 To a Neptunian the common satisfaction of life seems too banal, and he often seeks the hidden mysteries of life. The advanced soul however realises that life is a dream, and a divine dream at that. en w:Liz Greene Neptune and the Artist The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption 1st paperback York Beach, Me. Samuel Weiser, Inc. 2000 324 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo77spK78yoC&pg=PA324 978-1-57863-197-1 Often the Neptunian cannot bring his or her fantasies to birth in form because the fantasy world remains a surrogate womb, static rather than flowing, a place of painless oblivion rather than a bridge between human and divine. en chiefly science fiction An (imaginary) inhabitant of the planet Neptune. en w:Camille Flammarion The Planet Neptune and the Frontiers of the Solar Domain J[ohn] Ellard Gore Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens: [...] Translated from the French with the Author’s Sanction London Chatto & Windus,Piccadilly 1894 470 https://archive.org/details/popularastronom00flamgoog/page/n497/mode/1up 7927688 I need not say that from Neptune the earth is completely invisible, as well as Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter. Saturn is a little star which departs from the sun up to 18°. For the Neptunians the solar system appears to be composed of the sun, Saturn, Uranus, their own world, and the planet which doubtless gravitates beyond Neptune. en w:John Russell Fearn 12 Quorne Returns The Golden Amazon Saga book 6 [Rockville, Md.] w:Wildside Press 1952 2013 102 https://books.google.com/books?id=saX0AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 978-1-4794-0989-1 We learn the energy quotient of a bogus Earthling, note how much it varies from that of a genuine one, and then proceed to carefully single out every Neptunian. It will take time, no doubt, but not perhaps as long as we think, as the percentage of Neptunians to Earthlings is small. en Justin McCory Martin March Marvelous Month-by-month Writing Prompts: 250 Knock-their-socks-off Writing Prompts to Inspire Super Writing All Year Long! New York, N.Y. Scholastic Professional Books 2001 43 https://books.google.com/books?id=w0PEjlWbP-EC&pg=PP45 978-0-439-22250-1 Pretend that you are a visitor to Earth from the planet Neptune. When you return home you will want to describe Earthlings to your fellow Neptunians. [...] Good luck! Or as Neptunians say, "Urk bliff!" en Patricia Ann Pich Neptune Out of this World: A Fairy Tale for Children of All Ages [Bloomington, Ind.] 1stBooks 12 April 2001 5–6 https://books.google.com/books?id=BK1o-YK9sP4C&pg=PA5 978-0-7596-2308-8 Since Neptune had been the chosen planet to help Earth work through its current series of crises, Neptunians were key beings at this time. Each visit to Earth was a specific mission for those who were chosen to travel there. Translations person under the astrological influence of the planet Neptune inhabitant of the planet Neptune Arabic: ar نِبْتُونِيّ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 海王星人 French: fr Neptunien m, fr Neptunienne f Irish: ga Neiptiúnach m Japanese: ja 海王星人 かいおうせいじん, Kaiōsei-jin Notes n References Further reading Neptune Neptune (mythology) Neptune (disambiguation) en eponyms en Celestial inhabitants Demonyms Water